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Elon Musk is confident of unmanned SpaceX Starships going to Mars in the 2026 launch window. The Starships will bring Teslabots and Cybertrucks to Mars as part of the payload. SpaceX will need to bring systems to make methane fuel and liquid oxygen out of the Mars atmosphere. It would be ideal to have the ... Read more

Aligning the quantum property known as spin for fusion fuels could make it easier to generate electricity economically. Above – An artist’s interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to ... Read more

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light–matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ultrafast plasmonics. Ultrafast plasmonic properties are exploited in numerous applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, sensors, and optical feedback in lasers. In addition to these applications, the ultrafast ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology’s customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

Quantum Circuits recently raised $60 million in a new funding round and they have just announced a new unique superconducting hardware system drives more efficiency with error-detecting dual-rail qubits. They have new software, simulator, and cloud service for full-stack enterprise solution that corrects first, then will be able to scale. Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced highly ... Read more

The sixth SpaceX Starship flight will be in a few minutes. The rocket and starship are almost fully fueled and we are about five minutes from launch. This should have another booster catch landing and an orbital Starship engine relight. The engine relight will set the stage for orbital flights in the next missions. SpaceX ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will have its sixth launch tomorrow. This will hopefully be the second successful catch of the booster. SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell describes how SpaceX Starship will be even more valuable than Starlink. Starlink could capture 30% of the global communication industry. SpaceX Starship can take over long range global air cargo and generate ... Read more

There is a new type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below. Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography based ... Read more

Ohysicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison produced a tokamak plasma that is stable at 10 times the [old] Greenwald limit. The findings may have implications for tokamak fusion reactors, though the researchers caution that their plasma is not directly comparable to that in a fusion reactor. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a density ... Read more

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050°C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize power as much as converting electricity generation to stop using fossil fuel. Current solar converters are expensive and inefficient when generating temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes. ... Read more

MIT researchers achieved 61.9% on ARC tasks by updating model parameters during inference. Is this key to AGI? We might reach the 85% AGI doorstep by scaling and integrating it with COT (Chain of thought) next year. Test-time training (TTT) for large language models typically requires additional compute resources during inference compared to standard inference. ... Read more

Elon posted that Tesla FSD (full self driving) V13.X will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between intervention. Cool. V13 will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between interventions. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in recent years. On certain tasks, the Orion model is not reliably better than its predecessor according to unnamed OpenAI researchers. eX-OpenAI co-founder Ilya ... Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to head a department of government efficiency. Elon Musk has said at least $2 trillions per year could be removed from the $6.5 trillion annual federal government budget. The US budget in 1998 was $1.65 trillion. the 1998 budget inflation-adjusted to 2024 value is $3.2 trillion. = ... Read more

The top goal for Nvidia Jensen Huang is to have AI designing the chips that run AI. AI assisted chip design of the H100 and H200 Hopper AI chips. Jensen wants to use AI to explore combinatorially the entire chip design. He wants AI assisted cross modular codesign. They would optimize all of the thousands ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang describes the AI revolution as going beyond computer tools to AI skills. They are already revolutionizing the data center with compute accelerating GPUs. The $2 million AI GPU racks have far denser compute than regular CPU powered servers. The cables connecting the old larger racks cost more than the new denser ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 6 plans to launch in 6 days on November 18, 2024. They will be performing a similar flight to flight 5 but have made changes to the heat shield and other systems. The booster should return for a catch but if anything is going wrong it will be aborted. The upper stage ... Read more

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of lasting just a few thousand cycles, they could now endure several hundred thousand charge and discharge cycles. The main innovation is a special protective layer for ... Read more

Tesla shares have surged and the companies value is over $1 trillion. I have a video where I discuss why there will be follow through. (not financial advice). There is a strong chance of $450 in the next 90 days. $1000 in the second half of 2025. And a 10X to $3000 by 2027. Elon ... Read more

SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars. Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more—across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars. The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink’s ... Read more